Agriculture Expert And Eucatex Executive Flavio Maluf

Flavio Maluf has been the President and CEO of the furniture and textile export business known as Eucatex for two decades. Eucatex, which is a combination of the words Eucalyptus and textile, provides building supplies and other products to 40 countries, including the US, Germany, Mexico, Holland and England. In a recent report the executive made regarding Brazil’s agricultural exports, he stated that there has been a 0.7% decrease in them over the last year, and acknowledged that Asian countries like China have been the main buyers of Brazilian exports in this time period, with soybeans and cellulose being two of the things that are bought the most by these countries. Read more about Flavio Maluf at Wikipedia.

In addition, he expressed that the European Union, or EU, which consists of 28 countries, was the 2nd largest location that Brazilian agribusiness exports were sent to in June of 2017, with an increase in their buying of soybeans, green coffee, orange juice and pulp. Flavio Maluf said that based on his survey of the South American nation’s harvest between 2017 and 2018, there seems to be a favorable balance of business pertaining to the sales of grains and oil, and he feels that soybean production will increase by 4.2% more than last year’s crop.

Flavio Maluf started running Eucatex, his family’s business, in 1997, but although he comes from a wealthy family of prominent politicians, he wanted to make his own way. The Sao Paulo native attended Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, where he earned a Mechanical Engineering degree, and NYU, where he earned a BA degree, before venturing into the business world. He previously worked in the financial district at Citicorp. Not only does he have a leadership position at Eucatex, but he is also the President of Grandfood, a company that manufactures the pet brands called Golden and Premier Pet.